Pete Buttigieg Gets BRUTALLY Honest: Trump's DECEPTIVE Bill Means More Dead Americans

The Philip DeFranco Show

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Watch Part 2 of Today’s Show: https://youtu.be/ts8BN4O-LbA You're getting 2 Shows today because there is too much we have to talk about and first Pete Buttigieg joins Philip DeFranco to properly break down Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" and the real-world consequences, the deceptive spin, the sneaky smart way its backloaded to hide the true pain about to be unleashed, and who’s really going to pay the price. Watch Last Night's Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYHcy95suOQ&list=PLHcsGizlfLMWpSg7i0b9wnUyEZWI-25N3&index=1 Watch Today's New Show: (Goes live at 6pm ET/3pm PT) ———————————— 00:00 -- Interview Highlights 1:22 -- "So No Fireworks and Hotdogs this Year?" 1:59 -- "Are Republicans Trying to Remove Millions from Medicaid or Is This Actually About Cutting Waste?" 5:57 -- "What Will be the Impacts on Working & Middle Class Families?" 7:30 -- "How Do You Tell People They're About to Lose Money if They're Also About to Immediately Gain Money?" 8:44 -- "Is 'No Tax on Tips' a False Positive?" 9:57-- "Do You Believe the BBB Is Setting Up the U.S. for More Disasters like the Texas Flood?" 13:41 -- "What Is Different About the $4 Trillion in Debt We're About to Add to the U.S. Economy?" 16:38 -- "What's Keeping ICE from Strong-Arming Trump's Agenda?" 19:13 -- "What Are You Doing Now That You're No Longer Transportation Secretary?" ———————————— For more Philip DeFranco: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-philip-defranco-show/id1278424954 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ESemquRbz6f8XLVywdZ2V Twitter: https://x.com/PhillyD Instagram: https://instagram.com/PhillyDeFranco Newsletter: https://www.dailydip.co TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@philipdefranco?lang=en ———————————— #DeFranco #PeteButtgieg #DonaldTrump ———————————— Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most importantly, it's going to get paid for with people alive.
0:02.0	That ought to, I don't care how right-wing, left-wing you are, that ought to send chills down anybody's spine
0:07.0	because it means that they could change your rights.
0:10.0	The purpose of this paperwork is to make sure that some people fall through the cracks and lose their coverage.
0:15.0	So you might feel like you're getting kind of a bump before the dip.
0:19.0	Like at that point, we're talking about something that is not,
0:21.1	uh, not really defensible. It's just this kind of hard right ideology run amok.
0:25.9	Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. My name, what you know it is Philip DeFranco.
0:29.8	And lucky you, you're actually getting two videos today because it's just so much we need to
0:33.7	talk about. So today I'm giving you this special bonus video right here and then your regular deep dive into the daily news is that'll be out in a few hours, link below. But that said,
0:41.0	today we're joined by Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, the former U.S. Secretary
0:45.3	of Transportation and a man who's been on the front lines of infrastructure, economic policy,
0:49.3	and the national conversation about what is actually helping or hurting working Americans. So I'm bringing them on here for you today to break down what is really in Trump's so-called big, beautiful
0:57.8	bill. The one that's being celebrated on the right as a win for America, but is actually
1:02.0	packed with devastating cuts to health care, food assistance, and safety nets that millions of
1:06.1	Americans rely on. We're talking about the real world consequences, the deceptive spin,
1:10.0	the sneaky smart way that it's backloaded to hide the true pain about to be unleashed and who is really going to pay.
1:15.4	But also, before, you know, dragging him straight into the hellscape of whatever our political reality is about to be, I asked him how his fourth was.
1:22.1	So no fireworks and hot dogs for you this year? Oh, there was plenty of grilled meat and pool time. Look, at a personal level, I mean, it was about family.
1:29.3	We got the kids together with extended family.
1:31.3	We grilled out.
1:32.3	Our kids are about to turn four.
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